http://etherpad.com/
Maximum 8 people may join and need to be invited through email or a link. Contributers are identified by colour and are shown on the right of the page. However, they may change their colour. When the conversation is printed, colours disappear.
Wikispaces www.wikispaces.com
Wikispaces will create a class and logins for you, if you send the information. Use only first names.
Regional PD
I attended a session through ERLC and it was wonderful. Ray Rouleau presented this summer at St. Mary's school and I came out with many ideas. He has many excellent tutorials on his website, as well as a categorized list of websites which I frequent. They are doing many exciting projects. http://www.stmary.ecsd.net/ http://www.erlc.ca/programs/theme.php?theme=42&headertextid=Technology
http://etherpad.com/
Maximum 8 people may join and need to be invited through email or a link. Contributers are identified by colour and are shown on the right of the page. However, they may change their colour. When the conversation is printed, colours disappear.
Wikispaces
www.wikispaces.com
Wikispaces will create a class and logins for you, if you send the information. Use only first names.
A simple way to share bookmarks
http://ikeepbookmarks.com/
More options for sharing bookmarks and links can be developed using Diigo.
http://www.diigo.com/
Class - Microsoft One Note
I used this in a few classes, but it did not immediately allow me to identify each person rapidly.
Our district share site (EPSB) has a wealth of lesson plan ideas, tips for improving instruction, videos, and tutorials, etc. https://sites.google.com/a/share.epsb.ca
http://www.wwlearning.ca/ Sandra Gluth, a district consultant, updates her page frequently.
Regional PD
I attended a session through ERLC and it was wonderful. Ray Rouleau presented this summer at St. Mary's school and I came out with many ideas. He has many excellent tutorials on his website, as well as a categorized list of websites which I frequent. They are doing many exciting projects.
http://www.stmary.ecsd.net/
http://www.erlc.ca/programs/theme.php?theme=42&headertextid=Technology